"That's our game, we have five attackers who can all put the ball away with relative ease," said Hamilton, a senior outside hitter. "We have some big middles, which helps the outside guys because they're so big, the blockers have to commit to the middle."

Seabury Hall head coach Caleb Palmer said while his team struggled in the opening set, he was happy that they were able to make the adjustments to "a good Kohala team.

"We had to play a little differently than we usually do to win," Palmer said. "It would have been nice to win that first set, but at the same time, it showed some resiliency by our players that they were able to come back and that they're grounded enough to not get too up or down."

There were 10 lead changes and 15 ties in the first set — the last coming at 22-all. DJ Wong's fifth kill of the set gave Kohala the lead for good and the Spartans committed consecutive errors to end the set.

Hamilton said Palmer told the team to "relax and settle down.

"He told us that it wasn't our best game and that we needed to reduce the amount of errors we were making," he said.

The Spartans responded almost immediately, jumping to a 4-0 lead in Set 2. Hamilton extended the lead to 8-3 after a cross-court shot and after an ace by Mark Walker made it 12-5, Kohala was forced to call timeout.

"The errors — especially in our serve-receive game — really hampered us and took us out of our rhythm," Cowboys coach Brent Cornillez said. "Give Seabury Hall credit, they are a good team and they play very good defense."

Back-to-back kills by DeLyon made it 21-13 and forced another Kohala timeout. The Spartans close out the second set by scoring four of the next five points.

Seabury easily won the third set, then surged to a 4-0 lead in the fourth. A Kohala hitting error made it 12-6, but the Cowboys closed to 15-13 after a Kuliamai Aveiro-Kalaniopio's ace. Seabury Hall then scored six of the next eight points and held on for the victory.

Holden Awong had 43 assists and Josh Sutherland recorded 19 digs for the Spartans.